Ashe of Rings and Other Writings |
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| Author:
| Butts, Mary |
| Afterword by:
| Blondell, Nathalie |
| Preface by:
| Blondell, Nathalie |
| ISBN: | 978-0-929701-52-3 |
| Publication Date: | May 2024 |
| Publisher: | McPherson & Company
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $20.00 |
Book Description:
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Ashe of Rings and Other Writings is now reissued in paperback in our uniform Recovered Classics collection of the works of Mary Butts. This volume features Mary Butts's first published novel, Ashe of Rings, which depicts psychological turmoil during the First World War in the form of an occult drama. In addition, there is an epistolary novella, Imaginary Letters; a pamphlet essay on disbelief and faith, Traps for Unbelievers; and a pamphlet essay on urban naivete, Warning to Hikers....
More DescriptionAshe of Rings and Other Writings is now reissued in paperback in our uniform Recovered Classics collection of the works of Mary Butts. This volume features Mary Butts's first published novel, Ashe of Rings, which depicts psychological turmoil during the First World War in the form of an occult drama. In addition, there is an epistolary novella, Imaginary Letters; a pamphlet essay on disbelief and faith, Traps for Unbelievers; and a pamphlet essay on urban naivete, Warning to Hikers. The English novelist, poet and critic Mary Butts (1890-1937) is one of the more enigmatic of the early Modernists, and the last great "lost" English writer of the era. During the 1920s and 1930s she was as well-known and highly regarded in Great Britain as her now more famous contemporaries: H.D., Katherine Mansfield, Mina Loy, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Richardson, Jean Rhys, Djuna Barnes, and Kay Boyle. She was a writer of high energy with an original style, and possessed particular insight into the generation which survived the First World War. McPherson & Company has been reissuing her works in newly edited volumes since 1992.